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   From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com   
      
   On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:26:47 -0500, Tommy  drained   
   his beer, leaned back in the alt.conspiracy beanbag and drunkenly   
   proclaimed the following   
      
   >That just proves my point......The Soviets had just launched Sputnik, Not   
   >only was America, in an arms race, we were also in a space race. During   
   >that time, the Russians were kicking American ass when it came to space.   
   >   
   >All of the sudden we go to the moon.   
      
   Um, no.   
      
   Yes, the Soviets had the early lead (first in orbit, first man, first   
   three-man capsule, first space-walk) but by 1965 we were passing them   
   handily.  We had the first rendezvous, first orbital docking, and   
   eventually first man on the Moon.   
      
   Of course it didn't that the Russian moon booster, the N-1, was a   
   kludge that kept blowing up...   
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